About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 31. Chapters: Codex Sinaiticus, Minuscule 81, Minuscule 686, Stavelot Bible, Minuscule 2278, Minuscule 201, Minuscule 2277, Minuscule 696, Minuscule 692, Minuscule 691, Minuscule 698, Minuscule 688, Minuscule 695, Minuscule 2276, Minuscule 693, British Library, Add. 40618, Minuscule 449, Minuscule 689, Minuscule 690, Minuscule 694, Minuscule 697, Minuscule 500, Minuscule 202, Minuscule 547, Minuscule 478, Minuscule 501, Minuscule 272, Minuscule 496, Minuscule 551, Minuscule 550, Minuscule 644, Minuscule 554, Minuscule 645, Minuscule 548, Minuscule 553, Minuscule 498, Minuscule 687, Minuscule 491, Minuscule 495, Minuscule 549, Tetraevangelia of Ivan Alexander, Minuscule 552, Minuscule 504, Minuscule 499, Minuscule 490, Minuscule 502, Luttrell Psalter, Minuscule 493, Minuscule 492, Minuscule 497, Minuscule 640, Minuscule 503, Minuscule 494, Minuscule 641, London Canon Tables, British Library, Add. 5995, Sherborne Missal, British Library, Add. Ms. 12150. Excerpt: Codex Sinaiticus (Hebrew:, Greek: Shelfmarks and references: London, Brit. Libr., Additional Manuscripts 43725; Gregory-Aland n or 01, ) is an ancient, handwritten copy of the Greek Bible. It is an Alexandrian text-type manuscript written in the 4th century in uncial letters on parchment. The Codex Sinaiticus came to the attention of scholars in the 19th century at the Greek Orthodox Monastery of Mount Sinai, with further material discovered in the 20th and 21st centuries. Although parts of the Codex are scattered across four libraries around the world, most of the manuscript today resides within the British Library. Since its discovery, study of the Codex Sinaiticus has proven to be extremely useful to scholars for the purposes of biblical translation. Originally, the Codex contained the whole of both Testaments. Approximately half of the Greek Old Testament (or Sep...
